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Dougans Racing Engines Takes Top 4 Overall Spots at the SCORE Tijuana Desert Challenge
Matney, Lopez, Steele sit 1-2-3 in overall points standings heading in to the Baja 1000
The 2017 SCORE Tijuana Desert Challenge was an all out sprint to the finish line, where RPM Off-Road’s #4 Josh Daniel, #1 Apdaly Lopez and #9 Eduardo Laguna, filling in for Armin Schwarz, swept the podium. Daniel, who filled in for Justin..
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Dougans Racing Engines Finds the Podium at Vegas to Reno With Matney & Menzies
Dougans fields 21 Trick Trucks in the Longest Race in the United States
Dougans Racing Engines went full force at Best in the Desert’s 2017 Vegas to Reno. Named the longest off-road race in the United States, it is naturally the most grueling as well. Of the 21 Dougans powered trick trucks that took the green flag, 18 finished finis..
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Andy McMillin Wins his Third Career Baja 500

Dougans Racing Engines’ Andy McMillin Wins his Third Career Baja 500
BJ Baldwin & Bryce Menzies Join Dougans Racing Engines with Debut at Baja 500
Dougans Racing Engines racers were in full force at the 2017 SCORE-International Baja 500. Of the thirty-two Trophy Trucks that took the green flag at its 49th running, seventeen trucks were outfitted with Dougans Engines ready to take on one of the roughest courses..
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RPM Off-Road’s Apdaly Lopez Wins 2016 Finale at Best in the Desert’s Pahrump 250
Dougans Racers Take 7 of 9 Top Spots at the Finish Line
It was a storybook ending to the 2016 desert racing season for Dougans Racing Engines, whose athletes captured seven of the of the top nine spots at Best in the Desert’s Pahrump 250, including the overall win by RPM Off-Road’s #5 Apdaly Lopez. Lopez earned the top start..
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#38 TJ Flores and Eric Hustead Land on the Podium at BITD’s Bluewater Desert Challenge

#38 TJ Flores and Eric Hustead Land on the Podium at BITD’s Bluewater Desert Challenge
Dougans Now Shifts Focus to Baja 1000 to Complete Sweep of 5 Major Desert Race Wins in 2016
Best in the Desert’s Bluewater Desert Challenge was an all or nothing throw down in one the fastest races of the 2016 season. The low mileage two day multi lap format meant pedal down and it was either podium or bust for the fourteen Do..
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Andy McMillin Puts Dougans Racing Engines Atop the Podium at Vegas to Reno
Dougans Racing Engines Now 4 for 4 in Major Off-Road Desert Races in 2016
Andy McMillin earned his first overall win of 2016 in his TSCO Racing T1 Trick Truck at Best in the Desert’s Vegas to Reno, solidifying his place in the top five Best in the Desert overall standings with two races remaining in the 2016 season. With Justin Matney’s w..
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#21 Tavo Vildosola Wins the 2016 SCORE-International Baja 500

#21 Tavo Vildosola Wins the 2016 SCORE-International Baja 500
Dougans Racing Engines Take 3 of Top 5 Overall Spots
In one of the most grueling and demanding Baja races in recent history, #21 Tavo Vildosola won his first career SCORE-International Baja 500. Despite starting 13th off the start line in Ensenada, Baja California, Vildosola averaged a speed of 56.86 miles per hour and finished in eight hours, twenty minu..
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Dougans Racers Charge Best in the Desert’s Laughlin Desert Classic

Dougans Racers Charge Best in the Desert’s Laughlin Desert Classic
RPM Off-Road’s Apdaly Lopez Wins Day 1 and Eduardo Laguna Earns a 3rd Place Overall Podium Finish
Desert racing returned to Laughlin, NV this past weekend with the inaugural Method Race Wheels Laughlin Desert Classic presented by Canidae Tap It. A two-day race, the Laughlin Desert Challenge was the first Best in the Desert race in recent ..
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Ray Field of Dougans Racing Engines Builds Winning Combinations for SCORE’s Best Race Teams
The 2015 SCORE Desert Racing season was one that engine builder Ray Fields, owner of Dougan’s Racing Engines, will never forget. Fields not only won the 2015 SCORE Engine Builder of the Year Award, but he also won Performance Racing Engine of the Year Award at the Performance Racing Industry trade show last Decem..
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Dougans Racing Engines Ends 2015 with Two Engine Builder of the Year Awards

Dougans Racing Engines Ends 2015 with Two Engine Builder of the Year Awards
Finishes 2015 race season with win and second points championship to monumental season
Capping off a monumental 2015 race season, Dougans Racing Engines was named 2015 Performance Engine Builder of the Year by Engine Builder Magazine. Engine Builder Magazine is one of the best-known business magazines serving the machine shop, custom engine,..
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Tavo Vildosola Wins Best in the Desert’s Henderson 250

Tavo Vildosola Wins Best in the Desert’s Henderson 250
Dougans Racers Take Three of Top Four Spots in the BITD Finale
Tavo Vildosola made the decision to race Best in the Desert’s Henderson 250 just days before the green flag dropped. After an 11th place qualifying time, Tavo and navigator Javi Valenzuela kept to their well known strategy of speed and intelligence and barreled their way to the front to finish +00..
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Apdaly Lopez First to the Finish Line, Settles for Second Place at the 2015 Baja 1000

Apdaly Lopez First to the Finish Line, Settles for Second Place at the 2015 Baja 1000
Lopez Wins SCORE-International Overall Points Championship in the Trophy Truck Class
Apdaly Lopez entered the 2015 SCORE-International Baja 1000 third in points behind Dougans Engine racers, Tavo Vildosola and Lalo Laguna. With an official second place finish at the Baja 1000, Lopez became the first Mexican national driver to win t..
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